[22 July 1918]

Tula

To Comrade Chairman of the Tula Provincial Executive Committee
Kaminsky

Copy to Panyushkin

Panyushkin must immediately explain to me his actions and attempts to free Agapov.

Let Panyushkin go to Moscow.

Agapov must remain under arrest. The Provincial Executive Committee must urgently submit to me a copy of the report on his case.

Both Kaminsky and Panyushkin must inform me immediately of the execution of these orders.

If Panyushkin proves guilty of disorganization, he will be strictly punished.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

**EDITORIAL NOTES:**

¹ Lenin's telegram was prompted by a report from G. N. Kaminsky concerning unlawful actions by V. L. Panyushkin, commissar of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee's detachment and extraordinary military commissar of Tula Province, who attempted to free, using the forces of his detachment, S. K. Agapov, commander of the garrison, who had been arrested by the commissar of justice and the provincial military commissar for embezzlement of state funds (see D. M. Os'kin. Notes to Military Commissars, 1931, pp. 82–90).